Twenty-three Tests have been played at the Iqbal stadium in Faisalabad, out of which only 11 produced a result; 12 have ended in draws.

On 18 occasions, the captain winning the toss elected to bat, but only five times has the team gone on to win, while 11 games have been drawn. On five occasions when the toss-winning captain decided to bowl first, two Tests resulted in wins for the toss-winning side, while on two occasions the decision backfired, while one match ended in draw.

India has a none-too-impressive record at Faisalabad. Three out of their four matches ended in draws there and in 1982-83 they were crushed by 10 wickets by the hosts.

India can however take solace from the fact that Pakistan too hasn't enjoyed much success at the venue in recent past. In the last five games at the ground, Pakistan lost two and drew the remaining three. The last time India played at Faisalabad was way back in 1989-90 and Sachin Tendulkar [Images] is the only active player from that game.

Pacers have always performed better than spinners at the venue. In the last five Tests at the venue, pacers have taken 106 wickets, at an average of 29.64 and a strike-rate of 57.01. The corresponding figures for spinners are 36.81 and 78.54. Confining to India versus Pakistan encounters only, the difference becomes only too glaring. While pacers have taken 65 wickets at an average of 46.31 and a strike-rate of 82.02, spinners have yielded 69.83 runs and bowled 142.96 deliveries for every wicket.

Among current batsmen, Inzamam-ul Haq tops the batting charts for Pakistan with 575 runs from 6 games with two hundreds at an average of 52.27. In fact both his hundreds were scored in one game against England [Images].

Shoaib Akhtar [Images], with 13 wickets from 2 games, at 25.31, tops the bowling charts. Danish Kaneria has taken 11 wickets, but they have come in four Tests at an average of 53.27. Shahid Afridi [Images] has taken 6 wickets in 2 games at a measly average of 22.17. He could turn out to be Pakistan's trump-card on this wicket.

There have been three Test matches at Faisalabad, in which at least one full day's play was lost because of rain, bad weather and clashes with the umpire. They are:

Pak v Aus -- 1979-80 -- (first day was lost)
Pak v Eng -- 1987-88 -- (third day was lost due to Shakoor Rana/Mike Gatting controversy)
Pak v Zim -- 1998-99 -- (all five days were lost because of heavy fog).

The first and second games were drawn, while the third was abandoned since not even the toss was made. For the same reason, the third game is not included into cricket records also.

Playing record of each country:

Country	Mts	Won	Lost	Drawn	Won%
Australia	3	0	1	2	0.00
England	4	0	0	4	0.00
India	4	0	1	3	0.00
New Zealand [Images]	1	0	1	0	0.00
Pakistan	23	6	5	12	26.09
South Africa	2	1	0	1	50.00
Sri Lanka [Images]	5	2	1	2	40.00
West Indies [Images]	3	2	1	0	66.67
Zimbabwe	1	0	1	0	0.00
TOTAL	23	11	11	12	47.83

Toss record:

	Tests	Won	Lost	Drawn
Toss won & batted first	18	5	2	11
Toss won & fielded first	5	2	2	1

Highest Individual Scores:

Score	Batsman	For	Vs	Season
253	ST Jayasuriya	SL	Pak	2004-05
235	GS Chappell	Aus	Pak	1979-80
210*	Taslim Arif	Pak	Aus	1979-80
210	Qasim Omar	Pak	Ind	1984-85
206	Qasim Omar	Pak	SL	1985-86
203*	Javed Miandad	Pak	SL	1985-86
199	Mudassar Nazar	Pak	Ind	1984-85
176	Zaheer Abbas	Pak	Ind	1978-79
172	GN Yallop	Aus	Pak	1979-80
168	Zaheer Abbas	Pak	Ind	1982-83
157	S Wettimuny	SL	Pak	1981-82
154*	Javed Miandad	Pak	Ind	1978-79
152	DI Gower	Eng	Pak	1983-84

Note: Five centuries have been scored by Indian batsmen at Faisalabad with GR Viswanath's 145 in 1978-79 being the highest

Highest partnership for each wicket:

Wkt	Runs	Players		For	Vs	Season
1st	141	Mohsin Khan	Mudassar Nazar	Pak	Ind	1984-85
2nd	250	Mudassar Nazar	Qasim Omar	Pak	Ind	1984-85
3rd	397	Qasim Omar	Javed Miandad	Pak	SL	1985-86
4th	287	Javed Miandad	Zaheer Abbas	Pak	Ind	1982-83
5th	200	Patil, SM	Shastri, RJ	Ind	Pak	1984-85
6th	207	Salim Malik	Imran Khan [Images]	Pak	Ind	1982-83
7th	167	Gower, DI	Marks, VJ	Eng	Pak	1983-84
8th	124	Kirsten, G	Symcox, PL	SAf	Pak	1997-98
9th	101	Jayasuriya, ST	Fernando, CRD	SL	Pak	2004-05
10th	48	Rashid Khan	Tauseef Ahmed	Pak	SL	1981-82

Best bowling in an innings:

Player	Wkts	Runs	For	Vs	Season
C Pringle	7	52	NZ	Pak	1990-91
Waqar Younis	7	76	Pak	NZ	1990-91
Abdul Qadir	7	142	Pak	Aus	1982-83
N Kapil Dev [Images]	7	220	Ind	Pak	1982-83
Abdul Qadir	6	16	Pak	WI	1986-87
Wasim Akram	6	48	Pak	Zim	1996-97
SM Pollock	6	78	SAf	Pak	2003-04
Iqbal Qasim	6	89	Pak	WI	1980-81
Wasim Akram	6	91	Pak	WI	1986-87
Imran Khan	6	98	Pak	Ind	1982-83
M Prabhakar	6	132	Ind	Pak	1989-90
Iqbal Qasim	6	141	Pak	SL	1981-82

Best bowling in a match:

Player	Wkts	Runs	For	Vs	Season
Waqar Younis	12	130	Pak	NZ	1990-91
C Pringle	11	152	NZ	Pak	1990-91
Imran Khan	11	180	Pak	Ind	1982-83
Abdul Qadir	11	218	Pak	Aus	1982-83
Wasim Akram	10	106	Pak	Zim	1996-97

Note: The best match figures by an Indian bowlers have been 7 for 220 by Kapil Dev in 1982-83

Tests between India and Pakistan:

Test #	Start Date	Inns1	Inns2	Inns3	Inns4	Result
1	16 Oct 1978	Pak 503-8d	Ind 462-9d	Pak 264-4d	Ind 43-0	Drawn
6	03 Jan 1983	Ind 372	Pak 652	Ind 286	Pak 10-0	Pak-10 wickets
8	24 Oct 1984	Ind 500	Pak 674-6			Drawn
13	23 Nov 1989	Ind 288	Pak 423-9d	Ind 398-7		Drawn